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While a ship of
Mycenaeans sail to Pisa to bring back the bones of Pelops, Odysseus brings Achilles's son Neoptolemus to Troy and gives him his father's armor. Achilles's ghost appears to him. When the Trojan ally
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is one of the better-attested epics in the Epic Cycle: nearly thirty lines of the original text survive. Nevertheless, we are almost entirely dependent on a summary of the Cyclic epics contained in the
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does not seem to have been redacted in a single, authoritative version, according to varying accounts of its details that cannot securely be harmonised.
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builds the wooden horse, and the Greeks place their best warriors inside it, burn their camp, and withdraw to the nearby island
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Graecorum testimonia et fragmenta
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